Celebrate Mandela's 90th Birthday

Mandela: The Authorized Portrait

Mandela: The Authorized Portrait

The most Comprehensive and Intimate Portrait of Mandela's Life Ever Published
Mandela: The Authorized Portrait

This comprehensive volume provides a vivid, inspirational and moving tribute to one of the most significant leaders of our time.


The Sneaky Book for Boys

Sneaky Book for Boys

Picking up where The Dangerous Book for Boys left off this clever book provides complete how-to instructions and diagrams for sneaky gadgets, survival skills, magic tricks, communication codes, and science projects. The Sneaky Book for Boys also explores sneaky animals and insects and recycling and conservation techniques.


MUTTS' Shelter Stories: Love. Guaranteed.

MUTTS' Shelter Stories: Love. Guaranteed.

Each year, more than six million animals find themselves in shelters across the U.S. Abused, neglected, abandoned, these innocent animals each have a story they cannot tell. Patrick McDonnell, author of the celebrated MUTTS comic strip and tireless animal advocate, helps give them a voice in MUTTS' Shelter Stories: Love. Guaranteed.


Dogs: 101 Adorable Breeds

Dogs: 101 Adorable Breeds

If you are already a dog lover or seeking a new type of companion, Dogs: 101 Adorable Breeds can lead you to your new furry friend and remind you why you picked the faithful companion who sleeps at the foot of your bed. Author Rachael Hale is one of the world's leading animal portrait photographers.


Beat High Gas Prices Now! Save $50 a Month

Beat High Gas Prices Now!

With gas prices soaring over $4.00 a gallon and no end in sight, it's no wonder that drivers are looking for ways to cut back on their gas usage. Beat High Gas Prices Now! is a handy guidebook offers dozens of easy-to-follow tips to help you "beat the pump" and save up to $50 a month in gas. "Our goal should be to spend the least amount of money, and use the least amount of fuel, to cover the distance we want to go," states MacEachern.


Things Cooks Love
Implements. Ingredients. Recipes.

Things Cooks Love: Implements. Ingredients. Recipes.

Things Cooks Love by the trusted culinary authority Sur La Table, speaks to the love that cooks of all levels feel for their tools.

FREE RECIPES from Things Cooks Love!

"Highly recommended" —Library Journal

"With plenty of user-friendly recipes and cookware tips, gives approachable advice home cooks can count on." —Bon Appetit

Slurp: Drinks and Light Fare, All Day, All Night

Slurp: Drinks and Light Fare, All Day, All Night

Whether your tastes run to carrot and ginger juice, Captain Nemos, or blueberry and mint coolers, Slurp: Drinks and Light Fare, All Day, All Night offers the best quenchers around and delicious dishes to eat with them.


A Stingray Bit My Nipple!

A Stingray Bit My Nipple! True Stories from Real Travelers

True Stories from Real Travelers

A Stingray Bit My Nipple! is a collection of 200 of the best anecdotes submitted to the "True Stories" section of Budget Travel magazine. The tales of travel are alternately entertaining, heartwarming, shocking, and hilarious. Photos complement many stories, which complete the scenario and add to its entertainment factor.


Blood, Sweat, and Tea: Real-Life Adventures in an Inner-City Ambulance

Blood, Sweat, and Tea: Real-Life Adventures in an Inner-City Ambulance

Tom Reynolds details the fascinating, heartbreaking world of an ambulance worker with wit, cynicism, and sympathy in Blood, Sweat, and Tea: Real-Life Adventures in an Inner-City Ambulance

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Winning Humor Books By Leland Gregory

Winning Humor Books By Leland Gregory

From presidential philosophizing and political pandering to foolish felons, historial myths, faux "facts," strange events, and office idiots, best-selling author Leland Gregory generates side-splitting laughter by chronicling the worst of human nature.


Too Old for MySpace, Too Young for Medicare

Too Old for MySpace, Too Young for Medicare

Too Old for MySpace, Too Young for Medicare is the perfect gift book for those celebrating their official entry into middle age, or those just on the upper-thirty-something cusp. Joey Green offers dozens of defining characteristics that indicate you're likely too old for MySpace, but too young for Medicare.

Our Newest Cartoon Books

Brevity Remix: A Brevity Treasury

Brevity Remix: A Brevity Treasury

Authors Guy Endore-Kaiser and Rodd Perry combine their satirical tendencies with a minimalist illustration style to create Brevity, a single-panel comic that Shakespeare himself declares "the soul of wit."


100% Whole Grin Rose is Rose: A Collection of Rose is Rose Comics

100% Whole Grin Rose is Rose: A Collection of Rose is Rose Comics

Nominated as Best Newspaper Comic Strip five times Rose is Rose is the strip where daydreams and reality meet and mingle.


Unknown Worlds! A Collection of Paranormal Cartoons

Unknown Worlds! A Collection of Paranormal Cartoons

"This book will take you places you could never imagine. Bring a change of underwear." —John Caldwell, MAD cartoonist

New Humor Books

The Official Guide to Dysfunctional Parenting

The Official Guide to Dysfunctional Parenting

Frederick Muench and Gregory Nemec offer a humorous account of all the little things parents can do to put the "fun" in "dysfunctional family." in The Official Guide to Dysfunctional Parenting Parents of wayward children will no longer have to scratch their heads and wonder where they went wrong.


Pasta Fazool for the Wiseguy's Soul

Pasta Fazool for the Wiseguy's Soul

Heartwarming Stories of "Family" Life

If you've ever wondered about the true happenings of a real mob family, Pasta Fazool for the Wiseguy's Soul gives it to you, mob lingo and all in this hilarious twist on the Chicken Soup for the Soul series.


The Mystery of Sausage

The Mystery of Sausage

And Other Ridiculous Blueprints

With a big wink to the audience, The Mystery of Sausage explains some of life's biggest mysteries. The clever answers come to life in hand-drawn blueprints on each page of this fanciful book.


Snoopy

Security Blankets is looking for your stories!

Security Blankets: How Charles M. Schulz Touched Our Lives, will be a collection of heartwarming, poignant, uplifting, and celebratory tales of how Schulz and his Peanuts characters have made an impact on us all.

Click here for more information, including instructions for submitting your own Peanuts story.